Title: The California and Oregon Trail; being sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of ...
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Title: The California and Oregon Trail; being sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual framework of this collection highlights 16th century English, Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Parkman, Francis; 1849. 12 . 10411.e.17.
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The California and Oregon trail was original published in 1849 and has acquired quite a reputation as an important source for information about Plains Native Americans.
Francis Parkman in this work relates how he and some companions travelled from the then western frontier of the United States in 1846, alongside parties of settlers heading for California. He and his companions arrived at Fort Laramie and then travelled around in what is now Wyoming and neighbouring states hunting buffalo in the company of a band of Oglala Lakota. Despite the title of the book Parkman never got near California or Oregon.
However the book itself is highly over-rated. The style of the work is very wordy and nineteenth-century, Parkman comes across as very pleased with himself and contemptuous of almost everyone he meets, especially Native Americans. The work is 300 finely printed pages and it takes until about page 150 to get anywhere. His observations are nowhere near as detailed and sympathetic as those of George Caitlin, for example.
Really, Parkman?s observations and understandings of Native Americans are best appreciated when summarised in some more recent works. A definite ?don?t buy?.
